Tag: Week 1 // Friday

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

In the 1970’s an American musical genius named Stevie Wonder released a catchy tune titled “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.” The title of the song was taken from a legal term for the contractual deed indicating the validity of a finalized business transaction. A formal title document was signed by the seller

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His Loyal Love Endures

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loyal love endures! Psalm 136 is such a wonderful Psalm! I love the way the writer continually repeats these words: for his loyal love endures.  But what is God’s “loyal love”? Is that a special kind of love? In English, we

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A God Who Redeems

 I don’t know about you, but I’ve been through a variety of seasons in my faith journey. I’ve lived through fruitful seasons, and I’ve also experienced seasons of suffering where I didn’t see how God could redeem it. And yet He did. I’ve sat alone in my bedroom at night,

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Sealed and Secure

What is the source of your security?   Is it your family? Your friends? Your relationships? Your plans for your future? A recent survey revealed that over 60% of women experience hurtful, self-critical thoughts, dealing with insecurity on a weekly basis.  As we consider all of the issues that women face

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And Then God Created

It wasn’t enough to give the earth light, to stretch out land and fill our sky with the sun, moon and stars… God wasn’t done yet.  In today’s reading in Genesis, so far God has:  Created light and changed the darkness on Day 1. Separated sky from water on Day

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Transformed

Today’s verses relay a critical moment in Jesus’ life and ministry: His calling of the twelve disciples. This is the beginning of a story of transformation.  Jesus had many followers (also called disciples) at that time, but He chose only twelve to be His closest disciples, His apostles. TWELVE. That’s

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The Shame of Not Being Enough

I have struggled with a sense of shame almost my whole life. Some of my earliest memories of school involve an overwhelming sense of shame. I vividly remember being in kindergarten and one of my classmates already knowing how to read. Right after learning one of the letters assigned for

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The Blessing of Christ

My daughter has a very special ability to say in ten minutes and a thousand words a story that would take me one sentence and less than a minute. You would assume she had inherited that skill from the author in the family, but no – that is a gift

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Take Note of Christ

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself! For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. – Hebrews 3:3-4 I was struck by this passage from the first

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Don’t Be Deceived By Lies

The letters John wrote are heavy letters with lots of deep doctrines, warnings, exhortations, and encouragements. One of the reasons for this is that all the apostles were dead with the exception of John himself. He was the last of the apostles, which is why many scholars believe the “last

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